From now on, banners in signatures to other forums are not allowed although you may link to another forum or website in your signature, without comment.

From now on, you may not advertise your other web forum on our forum. Links to threads on other forums are allowed, however, if they are pertinent to discussions here.

Proselytizing people to your jurisdiction is no longer allowed. I don't care if it is the GOA or the ROAC, we don't exist to give spiritual advice, but rather to discuss spiritual matters. There is a healthy distinction. If you feel the need to plug your group then do it by private message.

You may not private message others to solicit them to join your forum, however. We have the ability to read other people's private messages (this is disclosed in the member agreement you sign when joining the forum) and we don't do that usually, but we can, and we will, if we think you are trying to lure people away from our site.

Thank you for your understanding in this matter. From a human standpoint I would be lying if I said that some people in particular did not precipitate this action BUT at the same time there have been others over the past 1.5 years who have done this as well, so it is not just based on a knee-jerk reaction.

Stay tuned for an even more indepth statement on proselytism to be issued soon by all of us Admins.

OH NUTS! And I was hoping to convert everyone here!! Way to spoil the fun!!

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"Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.' Leftist thinking is just the culture that I live in and the culture the reporters who populate the mainstream media

"Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.' Leftist thinking is just the culture that I live in and the culture the reporters who populate the mainstream media

"Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.' Leftist thinking is just the culture that I live in and the culture the reporters who populate the mainstream media

"Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.' Leftist thinking is just the culture that I live in and the culture the reporters who populate the mainstream media

Mor Ephrem is a nice guy. Just say sorry and it will all be ok. Say I had things that were inside troubling me but I didn't know how to express appropriately. I will not behave that way again but I am seeking help.

No - My preference is for Merlots. The St Francis and Franciscan Labels are quite fine. (Go figure!!)

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"Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.' Leftist thinking is just the culture that I live in and the culture the reporters who populate the mainstream media

Mor Ephrem is a nice guy. Just say sorry and it will all be ok. Say I had things that were inside troubling me but I didn't know how to express appropriately. I will not behave that way again but I am seeking help.

vicki: who do we have to discriminate against? members of franciscan orders who are neither orthodox or catholic?

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"Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.' Leftist thinking is just the culture that I live in and the culture the reporters who populate the mainstream media

Very funny! The only discriminating I tolerate is of the palate, Brother Max...If you are happy with Nasti Spumonti, fine...you may have same and welcome....I'll stick to Vueve Cliquot or Dom P....My parents had a fine way of making sure their children didn't go drinking...they turned us into wine snobs in our teens....so we couldn't tolerate what our allowance would afford, and couldn't afford enough of what we liked to do damage to ourselves....

You may not private message others to solicit them to join your forum, however. We have the ability to read other people's private messages (this is disclosed in the member agreement you sign when joining the forum) and we don't do that usually, but we can, and we will, if we think you are trying to lure people away from our site.

As I've said in my bio, it is not my intent to win over Orthodox to Catholicism; however, I will continue to respond to what I believe to be error, in charity, and in truth.

I have indeed sent links to other forums by PM. This was not done in a spirit of proselytism, as the forum was ecumenical, and some of your own already post there. (It was on my "home" forum that I learned from Serge of OC.net.)

Is the prohibition on PMing forum URL's exhaustive, or is it intended to prohibit proselytism?

Mor Ephrem is a nice guy. Just say sorry and it will all be ok. Say I had things that were inside troubling me but I didn't know how to express appropriately. I will not behave that way again but I am seeking help.